Here’s the plan:

Meet at 10:30 am outside the Downtown Berkeley BART station.
11:30-12:30: Have lunch and meet with other college groups near the Civic Center Plaza.
12:30-1:30: Hear great speakers, including Dr. Wong!
1:30-approximately 2:30: Join the walk down Market Street
Take BART back to Berkeley

Please bring $8 for a round-trip ticket and a lunch (or money for lunch). For more information, see http://www.walkforlifewc.com/

Send me an email at berk...@gmail.com if you have any questions, and see you at BART this Saturday at 10:30!

-Katelyn

What do you think about abortion?

That’s what we asked Berkeley students this past week as part of our short documentary on student pregnancy for the Campus MovieFest.  We got some, er, interesting answers.  Some people thought that if a child was going to be born into “bad circumstances,” abortion was the only solution.  That made us wonder, what if a Berkeley student becomes pregnant? Does that count as a “bad” situation?  Is abortion the only answer?  To answer these questions, we researched the resources available to pregnant students and student parents, and came up with some surprising results. We’re now up to 95 views on the Campus MovieFest website!  Thanks to everyone who made this happen in just a week!

Join the Berkeley Students for Life (BSL) in celebrating the last few days of summer and kicking off the new school year with good friends and free food! No worries if this is your first year – this is a great chance to meet other new students and get involved in club activities.

About Us
Berkeley Students for Life (BSL) is Berkeley’s student pro-life club. We’re proudly non-partisan and non-religious, and our diversity is united in our mission: to put an end to abortion, euthanasia, and embryonic stem cell research through education and community service.

Why should I care?
The large majority of abortions are done because of a lack of community support for women who find themselves pregnant.[1] And, nearly half of all abortions are done to college-aged women.[2] This means we need to come together this year to support pregnant students and student parents at UC Berkeley. Join the Berkeley Students for Life in volunteering at local pregnancy centers, collecting baby supplies, and offering babysitting services!  Sign up on the right hand sidebar to receive our emails.

Questions? Email Katelyn Sills at kate...@berkeley.edu

See you there!
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[1] See http://womensissues.about.com/od/reproductiverights/a/AbortionReasons_2.htm.
[2] Teens aged 18-19 obtain 11% and women aged 20–24 obtain 33% of all abortions. Facts on induced abortion in the united states. (2010, May). Retrieved from http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html

Serrin has led Feminists for Life of America since 1994. Under her leadership, Feminists for Life has successfully advocated benefits for poor and pregnant women through the State Child Health Insurance Program, worked in coalition with other women’s organizations to defeat the mandatory “family cap” and other punitive child exclusion provisions in welfare reform, and helped to prevent poverty and coerced abortions due to threats to withhold child support through passage of the Enhanced Child Support Act.  Serrin served on the National Taskforce Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, which worked to pass the Violence Against Women Act, and testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee in support of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, also known as “Laci and Conner’s Law.”

Feminists for Life has distributed pregnancy resource kits to colleges across the country and is leading a discussion on developing practical resources for pregnant and parenting students. In 1997, Serrin moderated the first Pregnancy Resource Forum in the country at Georgetown University. Feminists for Life’s Pregnancy Resource Forums have helped to redirect contentious debate toward woman-centered solutions, and inspired model legislation in Michigan.  Feminists for Life helped to introduce groundbreaking legislation—The Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Student Services Act—that will put into hyper-drive new pro-woman solutions on campus.  The creator of the Women Deserve Better® than Abortion campaign has appeared on C-SPAN, CNN International, FOX News and ABC World News Tonight as an outspoken opponent of pregnancy discrimination and has focused on developing on-campus resources and support for underserved pregnant and parenting students.

The lecture is sponsored by Berkeley Students for Life.  For more information contact Alberto Gonzalez at
albe...@berkeley.edu.

Reserve your spot on Facebook

Rebbeca Kiessling is one such case.

Though Kiessling is now a successful lawyer, her first trial came even before being born, when as a “product of rape” she was almost aborted by her birth mother.   Hear Kiessling speak out about her life and her experiences on February 23^rd, 2010 at 7pm in Room 101 Morgan.

RSVP at the Facebook Event

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=316528865752

Also, BSL has its orientation session at the Concord Birthright Center this Saturday, 26 Sept. at 2:00. Please meet at the Downtown Berkeley BART station (outside the glass dome) at 12:30 on Saturday and bring $7.40 for roundtrip BART fare to and from Concord. This orientation is to teach you about the center and its services, and how you can be of help to them and the women they serve. (We will be volunteering there on a regular basis.) If you are a member of BSL’s Facebook group, you will have received an invitation to the Facebook event. You may also access the event here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135832001157